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An activist leads the crowd in a chant of "Black Lives Matter." Things are probably about to get underway The crowd is still worryingly small
An activist encourages the crowd. Says we're changing the timeline, that we can't give up She reminds us that the travesty of the Grand Jury decision yesterday in Louisville occurred on the 65th anniversary of Emmett Till's death This is an old fight
The activist talks about the importance of voting. How millennial voters now outnumber boomers. Very scattered cheers She talks about the danger of a coup. About feelings of powerlessness She's trying to end on a high note about coming together and carrying on the fight
On the move! A middle-aged woman pulls over to chant "black lives matter" with the protest
The protest has arrived at the Portland Police Association (PPA), our local police union Maybe 100 people here are this point No sign of the cops
DJ LRAD says: "This is the Portland Police bureau. We are aware of your criminal activity occurring. Do not throw rocks at the building. Do not try to light fires. Do not try to break windows" None of these things have happened tonight. We JUST got here
An activist of color takes the megaphone. Criticizes yesterday's action for ignoring the "revolutionary energy" of the crowd in the wake of the Grand Jury trials They denounce the accusation that all revolutionary energy is white rage. That this is whitewashing and also bullshit
Cops just claimed people are throwing rocks at windows Um, guys? Guys? W H A T W I N D O W Spic.twitter.com/fi2B6t9C3W
Some violent graffiti going on behind me. Protesters violently standing in the road. An activist gives a violent speech. Bubbles float violently through the air
Am I doing this right? Trying to sell out and become the eighteenth blonde anchorwoman on Fox News
(Call me 
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A Black activist steps to the mic to talk about Saturday He's here from Salt Lake City. Talks about how the Proud Boys used his autistic younger brother as a black token and attacked his organization He talks about the importance of standing up against this shit
The activist talks about how policy change alone isnt enough to change this shit. How we have to fight back How many names do we not even know? he asks the crowd "Hold the cops accountable!"
Another activist gets up and talks about division and peace policing "Our enemies are the cops...there's no bad protesters in a revolution!"
Richard gets up to speak! He talks about how this is an old fight About the history of police violence against black people How events that happen in other states, other precincts are symptoms of the same deep problem
Richard declares that he will not vote for Joe Biden. Talks about how he helped build the mass incarceration system were fighting against He calls on white liberals to get out on the street "Quit thinking Biden's going to change everything!!"
A Black activist named Mariah gets on the mic Expresses a wish to hear only from BIPOC voices on the mic Talks about the importance of showing up even when the protests aren't trending
"Black women are the most disrespected group on the planet!" She talks about how hard yesterday was, how awful it was
Mariah is a photographer. You can and should follow her at @MariahMacaronio
The crowd chants Breonna Taylor's name If you follow my threads you know I tell you when there are hijinks, property damage, and what have you. Aside from a little graffiti, nothing like that has yet occurred. At all Just for the record
DJ LRAD repeats his oddly specific announcement from a little while ago To be fair, someone tried and failed to set an awning on fire between my last post and this one, and someone took a hammer to the plywood over the windows without any effext The building remains unharmed
And again the announcement Ugh Gas mask time
Unlawful assembly declared. Cop cars approaching from multiple directions We have been told to disperse to the North You can see in this video that the PPA building is finepic.twitter.com/Hl7yeFG4U3
Cops make multiple arrests, it's unclear what for Their gas masks are very much onpic.twitter.com/tMz2y5ZA1U
I unintentionally back into a cop while filming. He politely touches my shoulders and informs me I backed into him. Very polite. Meanwhile they're conducting mass arrests. I don't fucking know, man There are SO MANY OF THEMpic.twitter.com/SM5D7CzcOG
Cops inspect the new graffiti Protesters chant: "How do you spell Nazi? PPB!"pic.twitter.com/ftPfm7FA4N
Cars honk approval while the PPB load arrestees into waiting vans. I'd estimate 10pic.twitter.com/JOO6qTVQ8K
I don't know why I'm suddenly sad, looking at them. Products of a bastard factory. Sure, they chose to enter, but the system made their existence inevitable I see trapped pawns. I see exhausted bodies in the service of the state Don't mind me. I get like this sometimespic.twitter.com/Y5k6ib8jBA
Anyway, they've left: circled around the PPA and vanished. Again, the streets are empty of everything but protesters and music and bubbles They're real good at the lightning warfare out here at the PPA. They'll probably charge again at some point
Here is the damage from that hammer I talked about earlier ~10 people arrested for thispic.twitter.com/kxQGSyz0Nn
And there it is: a second charge without warning. Appears to be an actual targeted arrest, though of course they fuck up anyone who gets in their waypic.twitter.com/6KYJnma40s
They make their arrest, get back on their vans, and leave. Again the streets are chillpic.twitter.com/c9nPZnR6hs
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